Barcelona dismisses the year in style with a show of music, water and fireworks. 70,000 people took grapes on the street and enjoyed the “human towers” Sants and “Ser del Mil·leni”, a metal skeleton 17 meters designed by La Fura dels Baus at Avenida Maria Cristina, off the magic fountains Montjuïc.

One hundred “human towers” got into the guts of “Ser del Mil·leni” to spice, while above this huge articulated man, hanging over fifty feet high, appeared Ringer, another key figure in this celebration to take the grapes spread Mercabarna. The show, which began at 23.30 pm yesterday and ended with the traditional twelve chimes.

The fireworks were also protagonists in the Avenida Maria Cristina, from the Venetian towers to the sources, and ended with a burst of fiery volcanoes.

Lay off Barcelona in 2013 with a show designed by La Fura dels Baus in which a bell will sound every three seconds, a giant copper bell. In addition, each chime will be preceded by a tunnel of light and fire in the direction of the water. Mercabarna will give away grapes, and the fireworks will burn 3,500 pounds of gunpowder.